Cosmos 2543 & Russia’s secret space weapon. Intriguing story by @HenryJFoy @KatrinaManson ft.com/content/6b1459… https://t.co/RBcpWF5De4
Italy’s fashion industry is the biggest employer of artisanal clothing and leather workers in Europe. The COVID lockdowns are exacting a heavy toll on an
Which sector of US economy has done even worse in COVID crisis than arts, entertainment and recreation? Mining in KY, OH and WV! twitter.com/aaronsojourner…
"there is good evidence that our attitudes to work are a cultural byproduct of the miseries endured in early agricultural societies.” James Suzman gives us
Companies with annual revenues above $1 billion dominate corporate borrowing, accounting for 78% of global issuers of dollar bonds so far this year. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/OCmjb8keBF
People Power and its impact on oil prices – how Shell’s planners envisioned a possible future in 1995. climatefiles.com/shell/1998-she… https://t.co/q3RvZTojgz
Faced with COVID shock there are big & distorting diff in GDP accounting treatment of government sector across Europe: UK, using output measure, has seen
How hours worked have fallen over the last 150 years, establishing 40 hours per week as something like a norm across AE. ft.com/content/8dd71d… https://t.co/pJYziq4f7X
RT @colbyLsmith: "There is a risk that overall inflation will overshoot [the central bank’s] target and they won’t have the political will…
Remarkable report by @BuzzFeed On the prison camp complex built by China in Xinjiang: 260 structures built since 2017 and bearing the hallmarks of fortified
Remarkable report by @BuzzFeed On the prison camp complex built by China in Xinjiang: 260 structures built since 2017 and bearing the hallmarks of fortified
RT @carl_b_sachs: Today is Hegel's 250th birthday! I'm going to celebrate by actualizing freedom and looking rationally at the world! How a…
RT @GitaGopinath: Excellent summary on dollar dominance and its implications by @SoumayaKeynes. For the students out there, always good to…
RT @declassifiedUK: BREAKING: The UK Ministry of Defence has blacklisted Declassified UK. It is the latest attempt by Whitehall to censor…
RT @ModeledBehavior: Hold on, extra UI expired, why isn’t hiring surging now that the dreaded constraint on labor supply has been lifted???…
RT @charliebilello: At $415 billion, Tesla's market cap is now higher than the market cap of… GM Ford Fiat Chrysler Honda Hyundai Daimler…
RT @byHeatherLong: BREAKING: 1 million Americans filed *new* unemployment claims last week. This was down slightly from the week before bu…
RT @M_C_Klein: Higher-Income Americans Lean Biden on Economy and Trump on Personal Finance. What Will Decide Their Vote? https://t.co/ZWQu…
American politician WiIlliam Jennings Bryan addresses a large crowd during a Democratic presidential campaign rally in 1896 in Colorado. Bryan was also nominated by the
RT @njtmulder: Jackson Hole as window of opportunity: "The perfect synchronization of a structural problem [the aporia of inflation targeti…
RT @NicolasGoetzman: Tribune pour Les Echos sur l'importance de la Revue de stratégie de politique monétaire en zone euro et aux Etats-Unis…
"Top 10% of earners owned 87% of U.S. stocks in the first quarter of 2020” Excellent piece by @paulvigna on how Stock Market and “Economy"
New competition to write rules of trade is not protectionism argues @MESandbu in important column: It is, rather, a deeper form of globalisation, where cross-border
Germany’s COVID stimulus is flattered by large share of loan/guarantees etc. But it is large by any measure and this week Berlin decided to keep
‘With the expectation that we’re moving away from oil, that makes a company like Exxon or the energy complex overall just not as interesting to
Since 2012 India has risen to become the world’s second largest cellphone market. But it too faces the question. What does a 5G future look
EXXON’s exit from the Dow Industrial Average is a historic moment: firm was included in index in 1928 as Standard Oil of New Jersey. Now
To add to Lebanon’s misery, inflation has rocketed towards 120% yoy. @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/category/the-d… https://t.co/Qu5wC8mP5T
A “hurricane pod” on Isle de Jean Charles. The pods can be used like lifeboats during storms.Credit…Emily Kask for The New York Times nytimes.com/2020/08/26/cli… https://t.co/7uG44tr5TN
Not in a century have European equities been this cheap relative to US stock markets. 2/3 down on their relative standing in 1919. (Obviously somewhat
French consumer confidence at least as measured by the @InseeFr_News index is a funny beast. Taken at face value it would suggest that 2018 Gilets
In 1993 35% of Americans worked for a firm with more than 1000 employees. In 2019 > 40% do. One for @SoberLook ft.com/content/92427a… https://t.co/yBjiw8KGSE
For small businesses in US, the employment data seem to suggest not so much a 90%, as an 80% economy. @PantheonMacro via @SoberLook https://t.co/4vOoH3NCJT
So far, perhaps surprisingly, credit card spending in US has held up past the expiration of $600 UI supplement, even in states with high rates
RT @bhbradlow: Bolsonaro has shifted his support base in a way that makes him less reliant on credibility from Guedes, so the risk of inter…
In Brazil the argument over spending ceiling that would mandate a severe fiscal contraction is heating up. If lifted will there be political crisis/capital flight?
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